preact-hyperscript

Hyperscript-like syntax for creating Preact elements.

Installation

> npm install preact-hyperscript

Example

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const { createElement, div, h1, h2, h3, button, ul, li } = require('preact-hyperscript')
const { render } = require('preact')

const h = createElement

const App = ({ library }) => div([
  h1('.bold', library),
  h2('#subtitle', 'Preact is a fast, 3kb alternative to React, with the same ES2015 API'),
  button({ href: 'http://ghub.io/preact' }, 'Learn More'),
  h3('Features'),
  ul(['preact', 'small', 'es2015', 'fast'].map(key => li(key)))
])

render(
  h(App, { library: 'Preact' }),
  document.body
)

Guide

Component shorthand

Instead of calling createElement(Component, props) you can wrap your component into a createComponent call and invoke it using Component(props) directly:

const { createComponent, h1 } = require('preact-hyperscript')

const App = createComponent((props) => h1(props.text))

render(
  // instead of h(App, { text: 'test' }) you can do:
  App({ text: 'test' }),
  document.body
)

Syntax

Each element in the DOM is exposed as a function when requiring preact-hyperscript.

const { div, h1, p, button } = require('preact-hyperscript')

These functions have the following syntax:

tag(selector, attributes, children)

All arguments are optional with at least one argument needing to be present. This kind of function overloading allows you to iterate on your DOM structure really fast and reduce visual noise.

• selector can be a class (prefixed with .) or an id (prefixed with a #). These can be mixed as you might expect: .title#id.pad.red
• attributes is an object of dom attributes: { href: '#header' }
• children can be a string for a text node or an array of nodes

Built-in sugar

Classes

Conditionally joins class names together. It utilizes JedWatson's awesome classnames. Visit the usage docs for more information.

Inline styles

Automatically converts style objects to a string. For an additional weight of ~400 bytes this is well worth it:

const style = {
  textDecoration: 'underline',
  fontSize: '56px'
}

const node = h1({ style }, 'hello!')
// -> <h1 style='text-decoration:underline;font-size:56px;'>hello!</h1>

Benchmarks

Some basic benchmarks for creating 10^5 nodes:

> npm run bench

native*100000: 31.481ms
hyperscript*100000: 114.727ms

Tests

> npm test

License

MIT